Since the last post about various efforts for statewide reform measures for the 2022 ballot, there has been great progress. Here’s an overview with the latest updates: ARKANSAS Legalization Activists are working to qualify a ballot measure to legalize and regulate adult use marijuana in the state. The proposal would allow adults to legally purchase up to […]
Members of the California Assembly and Senate have advanced legislation to the Governor’s desk permitting for the use of medical cannabis products within hospitals and other eligible health care facilities. Senate Bill 311 (a/k/a Ryan’s Law) provides for “a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within [a] health care facility.” The proposal prohibits patients […]
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series on the future of CBD. Read the previous installment here. When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved CBD as an ingredient in Epidiolex, a prescription drug used to treat severe epilepsy, the molecule’s path for over-the-counter products was sealed. Hemp industry members say […]
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a three-part series on the future of CBD. Read the first installment here. Coming Monday: How would federal cannabis legalization impact the FDA’s approach to CBD regulation? Hemp and CBD businesses have been awaiting guidance on over-the-counter sales of CBD from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since […]
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series on the future of CBD. Coming tomorrow: Does CBD need regulation? In the weeks following U.S. health regulators’ rejection of two applications to sell full-spectrum, hemp-derived CBD as a dietary supplement, the hemp industry has been left wondering what this development means for the future […]
Consumers are about to see more delta-8 THC products stocked on retail shelves across the country, following an agreement between the nation’s largest network of convenience stores and retailers and DD8, LLC, a New York City vaporizer company specializing in the lab-created products. The Asian American Trade Associations Council, a network of 80,000 independently owned […]
A coalition of hemp associations is working together to secure $1 billion in funding as part of the recent infrastructure legislation package introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The National Hemp Association and its Standing Committee of Hemp Organizations has submitted a $1 billion amendment to the pending House Budget Reconciliation measure in an […]
Lawmakers are moving forward with efforts to remove provisions from the state’s voter-approved medical cannabis law that permit qualified patients to home-cultivate personal use quantities of cannabis. Nearly 70 percent of voters decided in favor of the ballot Measure (Measure 26) last November. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem campaigned against the measure in the months immediately […]
Legislative changes to the state’s limited medical access law went into effect on Wednesday, September 1. The changes permit physicians to recommend low-THC, high-CBD formulations of cannabis to patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and with cancer. The new provisions also increase the percent of THC available in the products from 0.5 percent to one percent. […]
Senator Bernie Sanders is working overtime towards ending the infamous drug war and federally legalizing marijuana. Senator Sanders has stated multiple times in the past of his support on the pressing issue. At a town hall in the state of Iowa, Sanders issued multiple comments on federal legalization, “My own view is that the so-called […]
